The Harting Brothers Driven by More than Siblings Rivalry

The European Championship will bring a lot of excitement as the 4500 athletes and 52 nations will compete in several competitive categories. One notable contents that will attract the interest of the fans and pundits is the Discus category. There will some notable athletes that will take part of this contest with the ultimate goal of winning the gold medal. One pair of athletes that will surely draw the attention of the fans are the Harting brothers.

The former two times European champion Robert Harting is the more experienced and this European Athletics Championship will give him a great opportunity to reaffirm his name. This will give him an additional motivation as he aims another gold medal in Berlin this year. His personal record currently stands at 69.43m and the general expectation is that Robert Harting can improve. He will be remembered about his eccentric celebration with “ Berlino the Bear” at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin in 2009 after he was better than his arch-rival Piotr Malachowski. Well, he will be back at Olympic Stadium in Berlin and the overall expectations is that we might see his trademark celebration of ripping his vest to pieces. Combined with that is the fact that the Berlin 2018 European Athletics Championships will be his last major tournament. He has scheduled his retirement for 2nd of September at the Berlin Stadium during the ISTAF Berlin 2018.

On the other side, Christoph Harting will be also gunning for glory. The younger brother is one of the upcoming athletes at the European Championship and it will be interesting to see his effect on the disc throw contest. However, Christoph Harting has been around as he has some notable results behind his name. The German Disc thrower had a solid results at the 2013 and 2015 World Championships, reaching the final on the second occasion. Moreover, Christoph Harting has followed in the footsteps of his brother Robert to claim Olympic discus gold. This gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was probably his greatest achievement so far. Christoph has largely spent his career in the shadow of his older brother Robert Harting, who was one of Germany's biggest medal hopefuls. And although Christoph made his name in the Athletics world, it will be interesting to see the competition between the two brothers at the European Athletics Championship.

On a final note, we can conclude that the disc throw contest will be one of the most exciting competition. The Harting brothers will have a significant impact on this contest and it will be very interesting to see which Olympic gold medalist will be better in the disc throw competition.